Far Cry 3 on windows 8.1 and 7

I've read here and there comments that Far Cry 3 gets significantly higher fps under windows 8.1 then 7. Can anyone please confirm this?
I can't decide between Win 7 or Win 8 for my soon to come Clevo. I prefer windows 7 as it is more simplistic and classic style then windows 8, and looks better.
But Far Cry 3 is a game that I'd definitely be playing with my 860m which is a directx 11.2 GPU if that counts for anything as windows 7 doesn't even support 11.1.

 

While I don't know about Far Cry 3 specifically, I can say that Windows 8.1 is an overall improvement over Windows 7 and I highly recommend it. Windows 8.1 is faster than Windows 7 in every way, as well as more secure.

As for the annoying lack of a start menu, and the metro interface, just download a start menu replacer. I personally use Start Menu 8: IObit Start Menu 8 for Windows 8 Free download, Bring Windows 8 Start Menu back, which completely by passed the metro interface upon boot up so my computer feels like its running Windows 7.

The point is even if the performance for Far Cry 3 is identical, go with Windows 8. As you said new technologies may not even be compatible with Windows 7, not to mention that it's an inferior OS at this point.

 

LOL someone has been drinking the M$ Kool-Aid.

@OP I'd use Windows 7 until Windows 9 comes out.

 

Haha not at all. From my experience Windows 8 boots faster than Windows 7, even with the same hardware. It also feels slightly snappier. In fact to me the different between Window 7 and 8.1 is greater than that between Windows 7 and Vista in terms of overall system performance.

I'll be the first to say that Windows should have kept the metro interface confined to its mobile OS, but that said with the inclusion of a start menu add on, Windows 8.1 is superior. The OP said he still hasn't chosen his OS, so he should go with 8.1. If he already had 7, I'd say stick with that until 9 as well, unless he could upgrade for free.

 

I can confirm that on the same hardware, Windows 8 and 8.1 is indeed faster. It starts faster, loads things faster and is indeed snappier. Some games like Battlefield 4 also do give performance boosts in Windows 8 and 8.1 over windows 7, but those are few and far inbetween. MAYBE Far Cry 3 is one of them, but my Far Cry 3 performance is still pretty abysmal considering its visual fidelity.

The above being said, users like Mr. Fox have claimed (and I'm fairly certain rightfully so) that Windows 8 and 8.1 breaks benchmark performance and I've heard certain other things like overclock stability (not from Mr. Fox, but a friend of mine) simply by being there, and as such they refuse to update to it. So it's up to you what you wish to use. If you are an enthusiast and enjoy OCing your stuff, Windows 8 is to be ignored. If you don't really mind and can use a start menu program like Stardock Start 8 (and if in 8.1 and using a microsoft account to log on, autologon will bypass the need to input a password on boot), then you'll find that for the general consumer, Windows 8 is a nicer OS to use. It also puts, by default, a taskbar on my second screen AND scales my desktop background to the lower resolution of my second screen; something that Windows 7 never did (my background would render at 1080p on my second screen and thus have a large amount of it cut off in windows 7). It's a lot of little things. That being said, there's always going to be arguements against it and for it. Eventually you'll just need to pick one XD.

 

I don't have windows 7 yet either.